Summary

Charley and Denton checked inventory and the land at the beginning of Chapter 9. Like the previous chapters, these two chapters were told in the third person limited point of view and was from Charley’s vantage point. Charley tried to make notes as Denton talked, but he told her to stop writing and to start living the crop. The only way she could learn about sugarcane was to live it, he said. Part of learning included tasting the soil. Denton tasted it first. He said it was not too sandy and did not have too much clay. He deemed the soil perfect. When Charley tasted, she did not taste anything. On her second taste, she noticed much more.

Denton also said they needed to buy more mother stalk. He explained the stages of sugarcane. First, mother stalk, then those shoots grow into the...